Vote for the Flocktography Photo Challenge Grand Prize Winner!

UPDATE: You've chosen Felicia Bradley's "Floatin'" as the Flocktography Photo Challenge Grand Prize Winner!

Hey Flockstars,

In 2008 we launched the first ever Flocktography Photo Challenge.  We asked you, our fantastic community, to share photos of yours that you felt represented the feeling you get when you use Flock...the excitement, the sense of community, the ease of use, etc.

We received over 100 submissions to our Flocktography group on Flickr, and I have to say that I was blown away by the photos.  We have some seriously talented Flocktographers here, and choosing finalists was extremely difficult.  Kudos and major thanks to everyone who submitted.

All of our finalists will be receiving nifty Flock swag packs and are currently being featured in rotation on the flock.com homepage (and they look fantastic there!).

Choosing a Grand Prize Winner

Now it's your turn to vote and choose the Grand Prize Winner of the Flocktography Photo Challenge!  The Grand Prize Winner will receive, in addition to the Flock swag they've already gotten, an "Eye-Fi Share" Wireless Memory Card.

We got to see Eye-Fi in action as a fellow candidate at the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Emerging Tech Awards".  Like us, these folks get that sharing is one of the most important interactions on the modern web.  With the Eye-Fi Share, you can automatically and wirelessly upload photos taken on your digital camera to your computer or a photo sharing site like Flickr.  We hope that this will help our Grand Prize Winner to continue to upload amazing photos to Flickr!

Without further adieu, the finalists:

友情長存

Floatin'

twister+bubbles

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More Flocktography to come?

We really enjoyed the enthusiasm around this challenge and got some great images for our homepage.  But there are certainly some things we could have done better: 

1. Been clearer about what types of photos we wanted - We had to pass up on some great photos because they didn't really work on the Flock homepage.  Butterfly and puppy pictures are adorable, but don't necessarily define the feeling of Flock.  We weren't as clear as we could have been.


2. Been better at keeping you in the loop - I forgot to post a message when I closed entries on the Flickr group, and mightily confused a few folks.
   


3. Been faster - What with the holidays and all the hard work we're doing on the browser, this challenge managed to stretch on far too long.  Next time it needs to be shorter.
   

What did you think about the Flocktography Photo Challenge?  Would you be interested in seeing another?  What could we do better in addition to the items mentioned above?

Lastly, I'd like to call out my personal favorite from the runners up:

That dog has excellent taste in browsers.

Evan Hamilton

Community Ambassador

evan at flock dot com

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